Large Angle Detector Mover Carriage

This notice is issued by The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, located in Menlo Park, California. We are soliciting responses from interested parties to provide all personnel, materials, equipment, facilities and services required to complete engineering, design, documentation, fabrication, assembly, installation and acceptance testing of the X-ray Correlation Spectroscopy (XCS) Instrument Large Angle Detector Mover Carriage. The mover carriage will be used to precisely control the physical location and orientation of a pixilated detector used in performing x-ray experiments on a variety of samples. The mover must be capable of supporting 2000 lbs of equipment mounted to its top surface. The mover carriage must be capable of moving the equipment about an arc, 8 meters in radius, through an angle from -1 up to 55 degrees in the horizontal plane and -0.1 up to + 1.0 degree in the vertical plane. The mover carriage must also provide a vertical parallel offset of -30 mm to +3 mm and a horizontal parallel offset of +/- 2 mm. The desired resolution about the vertex of the rotation is 1 m-deg in both the vertical and the horizontal plane. A conceptual diagram is shown below. All motions must be motorized using SLAC approved stepper motors. Flexible cable carriers must be utilized for cable management. In addition to the above described motion, the mover carriage must be capable of performing the same motions at a secondary interaction point (IP) located at a 600 mm horizontal offset relative to the primary IP. The interaction point is the vertex point of the arc-motion. A diagram of the relative position of the two interaction points is shown below along with a park position. The top surface is of the mover carriage must be 500 mm below the indicated beam-line height of 1.4 m. Vendors interested in performing this requirement are invited to provide the following information to SLAC Purchasing Office no later than May 21, 2009. The information may be submitted via email to the Contract Administrator at contact@example.gov or faxed to +1 (555) 000-0000. Responses shall include the following information: Reference number XPP-BIS-052009, Company name, DUNS Number, address, point of contact, phone number and email address; business size, disadvantage, 8(a), or HUBzone status; and , Evidence that the contractor has performed similar projects (past performance history). NO TELEPHONE OR WRITTEN REQUESTS FOR SOLICITATIONS OR POSTING STATUS. This posting is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as commitment by SLAC nor will SLAC pay for information solicited. No basis for claim against SLAC shall arise as a result from a response to the Sources Sought or SLAC use of any information provided. SLAC reserves the right to consider a small business, 8(a) or any other set aside arrangement as deemed appropriate for this procurement.